What is the primary objective of the SPES program?

• A. Provide scholarships without employment.
• B. Create government bureaucracy.
• C. Provide temporary employment to poor but deserving students to help finance their education while promoting work experience and skills development.
• D. Ensure all students get paid minimum wage regardless of work.

Answer: (C)

SPES aims to provide temporary paid employment for poor but deserving students to help finance their education while promoting work experience and skills development. This combination—short-term work to support schooling and hands-on experience that builds employability—is the program’s core purpose. It’s about giving students real opportunities to earn while they learn, rather than simply handing out scholarships without work, creating bureaucratic structures, or guaranteeing wages for all students regardless of the job. So the choice that describes both funding education and developing skills through employment best captures what SPES is designed to do.